For the Common Good Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future

Name: For the Common Good Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
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ISBN: 9780807047057

ISBN-10: 0807047058

ISBN-13: 9780807047057

Edition: 2nd 1994 (Revised)

Authors: Herman E. Daly, John B. Cobb, Clifford W. Cobb

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Updated and Expanded Edition Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 1992, Named New Options Best Political Book Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future.

Book details

List price: $41.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 4/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.94" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Economics as an Academic Discipline



The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness in Economics and Other Disciplines



Misplaced Concreteness: The Market



Misplaced Concreteness: Measuring Economic Success



Misplaced Concreteness: Homo economicus



Misplaced Concreteness: Land



New Beginnings



From Academic Discipline to Thought in Service of Community



From Chrematistics to Oikonomia



From Individualism to Person-in-Community



From Cosmopolitanism to Communities of Communities



From Matter and Rent to Energy and Biosphere



Policies for Community in the United States



Free Trade versus Community



Population



Land Use



Agriculture



Industry



Labor



Income Policies and Taxes



From World Domination to National Security



Getting There



Possible Steps



The Religious Vision


Afterword: Money, Debt, and Wealth


Appendix: The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare


References


Index